Early Bloggers – Mena Trott co-founder of Six Apart

We all know Mena Trott from Six Apart . Back in 2002, she and her husband Ben founded Six Apart blogging platform which now is an international organization. In this brief on TED, Mena Trott goes back to when she first started blogging. It was not the advertising money that she could earn that tempted her. It was her will to write and express about herself and her life to her friends that made her write on DollarShort .

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Mena Trott brings out the intimate reasons why most of the people blog. It’s an evolution, it is a personal record of things that interest them. And in turn reaching out to hundreds and thousands of people of the world. The life record of a blog is what Mena finds the most interesting aspect of a blog. It adds a visual queue to any day in her life that she could travel back in a flash through her blog.

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As for their success with Six Apart, Mena says it is just perseverance and good timing! Blogging is not any rocket science, she says. It is just naivety of their intent to bring this amazing blogging software to the millions and allow people to express their personal story. Mena brings the main sentiment with so much of candor – flattening the world and influencing relationships across boundaries.

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